Ironfistedmonk
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Bully retiring, he was at the club when I started supporting them and when the news broke I felt numb, a Wolves team without Bully just felt all wrong
I’d agreed that I would give my Watford-supporting brother-in-law a lift home from Watford station after the game (we made the short journey up to Wembley together with my Dad and son).
He (understandably) stayed a while to bask in the celebrations so I had to sit, in a state of pure numbness, outside the station for about an hour as thousands of jubilant Watford supporters filed past me.
By far the worst I have ever felt over a game of football. Didn’t sleep at all that night and still felt numb for a good few days after.
Feel very guilty and embarrassed that my son saw me that depressed by a football result…particularly as 8-year old me vividly remembered my Dad being similarly silent on the walk back to the car having lost to Aldershot in the Play-Offs.
That is the last thing you need! I would have been tempted to just let him make his own way home.
Yeah, just remember sitting in a carriage full of silent Wolves fans all the way home. Numbness is a good way to describe it I think.
I’d agreed that I would give my Watford-supporting brother-in-law a lift home from Watford station after the game (we made the short journey up to Wembley together with my Dad and son).
As an 8 year old, did that help to make you realise how important football and Wolves was to your Dad? Interesting that it became equally important to you. Hopefully it wasn't a bad experience seeing your Dad like that, but the long-term consequences maybe were positive in that you've inherited his love and passion for Wolves!
I used to feel the same about my son seeing me get emotional or frustrated about things, worried that it would set the wrong example.
Then I read something that actually it can help kids, as they generally get emotional and frustrated about loads of things and it's healthy for them to realise that you do too. Also helps them empathise with other people.
Trying to be Superman in the eyes of your kids can sometimes lead to damaging their confidence, as they don't think that you're ever hurt, upset, frustrated, etc and worry that something is wrong with them!
Comfortably the worst/most upsetting moment for me. Followed by the worst train journey home.
Cant remember singing "We're not going to Blackpool"Was absolutely gutted that night
Remember singing in the North Bank We’re not going to Blackpool at half time, all went pear shaped second half
Yep I was in the Clock End. Hazell was sent off in stoppage time front of the "fake" North Bank.An odd one but losing in the last minute 2-1 to Arsenal at Highbury in the FA Cup third round in 1978. In those days the FA Cup meant something and to go out early was always gutting.
Bob Hazell had marked Malcom Macdonald out of the game for 89 minutes, then got himself sent off. Macdonald scored from the corner.
ps Hibbitt's goal was spectacular.
I don't get the nostalgia for the 90's. To me it was a horrid, wasted decade and the reason why we aren't established in the top 6. If we could have got in on the start of the Premier League and with Sir Jack's money we could have established ourselves at the top end and not be so far behind nowFunny how we all reminisce about the “good old days” of 90s and early 00s yet so many bad memories are from that period.
- Bolton in the play offs
- Norwich in the play offs
- Crystal Palace in the play offs
- the choke season
SGB.Reading the thread on Nuno got me thinking of how I felt when I heard the news and how that compared to other moments I've felt devastated as a Wolves fan. I narrowed it down to my top 5
5. FA Cup semi-final v Watford and Delofeu scores in extra time. You knew we weren't going to come back and our chance of winning the FA cup had gone. I honestly think we could have beaten City in the final
4. Wolves 4 Millwall 2. Last day of the 14/15 season. It wasn't the thought that we'd just missed out on the play-offs, it was seeing Sako doing a lap of honour with tears in his eyes and knowing I would never see him, Dicko and Afobe together again. They really were a magical front 3
3. Wolves 0 Bolton 2. No need to say more. It was the moment I realised I would never see Bully in the Premier League.
2. It's announced on TalkSport that Nuno will be leaving at the end of the season. God I loved that man!
1. 13 July 1999. If you know, you know, and you know why.
And didn’t they beat us on goal average to coming 3rd in first division. 70:71 ? We were a fantastic team in the early seventies. League, EUFA , League Cup and FA Cup .UEFA Cup Final 1972. The better team over 2 legs and would have given us a European trophy . I've hated Spurs ever since.
I have nostalgia for it in so far as I was 11 in 1990 so at a formative age and it’s when I regularly started going. Chuck in boyhood heroes like bully, thommo and Robbie. Then the money years and every summer excited about the latest “names” we signed. Now at 44, I look back at it being a series of false dawns, over paid and not interested mercenaries who liked the comfort of the treatment room and a whole barrel of “what if’s”.I don't get the nostalgia for the 90's. To me it was a horrid, wasted decade and the reason why we aren't established in the top 6. If we could have got in on the start of the Premier League and with Sir Jack's money we could have established ourselves at the top end and not be so far behind now
I don't think we'll ever know the full story about what was going on behind the scenes with Sir Jack and his family at the time that may have prevented him from spending the kind of money we expected, there was obviously the fall out later about the sale of the club to Steve Morgan.Good shout on the Premier League debacle under SJH. The feeling of utter disillusionment in how we had been let down was difficult to shake off and i've never seen SJH in the same light ever since.
You're not wrong. Been thinking about this recently now we're safe, but look at Leicester. Champions 2016, Champions League the following season and a cup win 2021 and consistently mid table/top half, all things we are hoping to achieve (minus PL champions). Now look at them
I’d agreed that I would give my Watford-supporting brother-in-law a lift home from Watford station after the game (we made the short journey up to Wembley together with my Dad and son).
He (understandably) stayed a while to bask in the celebrations so I had to sit, in a state of pure numbness, outside the station for about an hour as thousands of jubilant Watford supporters filed past me.
By far the worst I have ever felt over a game of football. Didn’t sleep at all that night and still felt numb for a good few days after.
Feel very guilty and embarrassed that my son saw me that depressed by a football result…particularly as 8-year old me vividly remembered my Dad being similarly silent on the walk back to the car having lost to Aldershot in the Play-Offs.
Tell me about it … got back and went in the Windmill in Wednesbury (used it a bit at the time) to get it out the way … full of em1. When Muscat elbowed the Grimsby kid and i knew we were going to blow a 10pt lead.
2. Getting home from Hillsborough when we'd blown it and seeing a town full of ****ed Albion fans